# General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice under the AI Act (Transparency, Copyright, and Safety and Security chapters) Source: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-gpai-code-of-practice-2025 Last updated: Aug 26, 2026 The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was published by the European Commission on July 10, 2025 as a voluntary tool for GPAI model providers to demonstrate compliance with Articles 53 and 55 of the AI Act, which applied from August 2, 2025. It has three chapters — Transparency (with a Model Documentation Form), Copyright, and Safety and Security for models with systemic risk — and was confirmed as adequate by the Commission and the AI Board. Signatories include Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI; xAI signed only the Safety and Security chapter. ## At a glance | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Authority | [EU AI Act](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/eu-ai-act) | | Type | Framework | | Status | In force | | Published | Jul 10, 2025 | | Effective | Aug 2, 2025 | | Applies to | Providers of general-purpose AI models placed on the EU market; indirectly, banks that build on those models through vendors | | Official text | https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai | ## Key points - Transparency chapter: a standard Model Documentation Form providers must complete and share with downstream providers and, on request, the AI Office. - Copyright chapter: commitments on EU copyright compliance, including respecting machine-readable opt-outs when crawling training data. - Safety and Security chapter: applies only to GPAI models with systemic risk (Art. 55), covering risk assessment, incident reporting and cybersecurity. - Adherence gives providers a presumption-of-good-faith route and lower administrative burden; non-signatories must demonstrate compliance by other means. - GPAI obligations applied from August 2, 2025; the Commission's enforcement powers over GPAI providers begin August 2, 2026. - Banks are typically downstream deployers: the Code determines what documentation they can expect to receive from foundation-model vendors for their own third-party and model-risk records. ## What changed for banks For banks, the Code standardises what foundation-model vendors will disclose — capabilities, limitations, training-data summaries, evaluation results — which becomes the evidentiary base for vendor due diligence and model-risk documentation of generative-AI use cases. It does not impose direct duties on banks unless they fine-tune a model so substantially that they become a GPAI provider. ## Use cases it governs - [Generative & agentic AI](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/by-use-case#generative-agentic-ai) - [Third-party & vendor AI](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/by-use-case#third-party-vendors) - [Model risk management](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/by-use-case#model-risk) ## FAQ ### Does the GPAI Code of Practice apply to banks? Only if a bank itself places a general-purpose AI model on the EU market. Banks using vendor models are downstream deployers; the Code matters to them as the source of standardised model documentation from providers. ### Which companies signed the GPAI Code of Practice? Around two dozen providers including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI signed all chapters; xAI signed the Safety and Security chapter only. ## Related documents - [Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI)](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-digital-omnibus-ai-regulation-2026-1744) — Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (Jul 24, 2026) - [Commission guidelines on AI Act Article 50 transparency](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-commission-guidelines-ai-act-article-50-transparency-2026) — Commission Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Jul 20, 2026) - [Draft Commission guidelines on high-risk classification](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-commission-draft-guidelines-high-risk-classification-2026) — Draft Commission Guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the AI Act (May 19, 2026) - [EBA factsheet on the AI Act](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eba-ai-act-factsheet-banking-payments-2025) — AI Act: implications for the EU banking and payments sector (EBA factsheet) (Nov 21, 2025) - [Commission GPAI model guidelines](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-commission-guidelines-gpai-obligations-2025) — Commission Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Jul 18, 2025) - [Commission guidelines on the AI system definition](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-commission-guidelines-ai-system-definition-2025) — Commission Guidelines on the definition of an artificial intelligence system established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Feb 6, 2025) - [Commission guidelines on prohibited AI practices](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-commission-guidelines-prohibited-ai-practices-2025) — Commission Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Feb 4, 2025) - [Regulation (EU) 2024/1689](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-ai-act-regulation-2024-1689) — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) (Jul 12, 2024) Last reviewed Aug 26, 2026. Cite the official text (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai) for the rule and this page for the summary and dates. --- Canonical page: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/ai-regulation/documents/eu-gpai-code-of-practice-2025 Part of [BankingNewsAI](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/) — a free daily brief on AI in banking, an AI regulation tracker (41 authorities, 237 documents) and AI-strategy profiles of the 120 largest US banks. Markdown versions of every reference page: append `.md` to the page URL; index at https://www.bankingnewsai.com/llms.txt.